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Chelsio T6 based 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Adapters substantially
raised the bar for datacenter networking by combining low latency, low power,
high performance, and integrated encryption, allowing differentiation for a
secure datacenter. With a proven, robust, and scalable architecture, Chelsio
T6 adapters have been winning new designs and customers. T6's proven TCP Offload stack exceptionally accelerates NVMe/TCP and iSCSI applications.
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A complete Unified Wire solution comprising L2 NIC, TOE, vNIC, iWARP, Storage (iSCSI, iSER, FCoE, NVMe/TCP and NVMe-oF iWARP) Offload, Crypto (Inline and Co-processor), Classification, Traffic Management for latest Linux Distributions and Kernels was released. |
Chelsio at Storage Developer Conference 2022
Chelsio announced a set of storage demonstrations and
performance benchmark results for NVMe/TCP Offload at Storage Developer Conference 2022.
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A highlight was the demonstration of NVMe/TCP Offload using the NVMe protocol
data unit (PDU) interface for highly efficient, low-latency access to NVMe SSD storage using the T7 DPU Emulation Platform.
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Chelsio participated in a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session entitled
"Best Practices for NVMe/TCP Deployment". The BoF included a review of NVMe/TCP performance results using Chelsio T6 Unified Wire TCP/IP
Offload Engine (TOE) which enabled unprecedented storage performance and scale.
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Chelsio and FADU Announce Expansive Flash-optimized Storage Connectivity at SuperComputing 2022
Chelsio and FADU announced a set of storage demonstrations and
performance benchmark results which showcase how hyperscale customers can optimize application performance and return-on investment (ROI) using
NVMe/TCP Offload, NVMe-oF and iSCSI technologies at the Supercomputing 2022 conference.
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This video demonstrates industry-leading storage performance results of FADU DELTA SSDs
accessed remotely using Chelsio T6 100GbE adapters.
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This Technical Report
details how combination of FADU SSDs with Chelsio's industry-leading Unified Wire adapter solution delivers compelling
performance, power savings, and total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages.
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Chelsio Demonstrates T7 DPU Capabilities
Chelsio's latest 7th generation
T7 Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a generation ahead of other DPUs, offering a range of industry-leading capabilities:
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Support for ultra low-latency compute at scale and optimal storage performance to redefine traditional AI/ML/HPC workflows.
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Extreme storage performance required for storage disaggregation, for example, using NVMe JBOFs.
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Extremely low power DPU Board (31W @ 100G typical, 45W @ 400G).
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T7 DPU ASICs and initial adapter SKUs will sample in April. T7 DPU emulation platform and T7 reference design kit are available to early access customers now.
Please contact Chelsio for more information.
Chelsio recently showcased the below features and capabilities of T7 on the emulation platform.
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This video showcases hardware-based acceleration for RoCEv2.
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This video demonstrates L2 NIC and Offload protocols
(TCP/IP, iWARP, iSCSI,NVMe/TCP) running over Inline IPsec.
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This video demonstrates the NVMe-oF iWARP Offload Target
which provides unsurpassed performance with low CPU utilization.
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This video showcases enhanced user mode NVMe/TCP Offload,
how the data is DMAed directly from the wire to the SSD, bypassing the host memory and demonstrates NVMe/TCP Offload Target.
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This video showcases the advantages of using NIC TLS Offload in FreeBSD and demonstrates it.
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This video demonstrated the L2 NIC, TOE, iSCSI and iWARP offload protocol processing.
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Upcoming Webinar: Chelsio T7 DPU Storage Applications and Use Cases
Chelsio and StorageIO will be hosting a webinar at 9AM US PST on December 15, 2022 to review the latest industry, customer and technology trends
pertaining to server storage I/O networking, storage and server I/O application and use cases, Data Processing Units (DPU) and storage I/O offloads,
Chelsio T7 and T6 highlights and performance proof points, and preparing for multiple 400Gb ports and PCIe Gen5.
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Recent Publications
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Chelsio
published
a paper on Inline IPsec acceleration capabilities of T7 for L2 NIC and Offload traffic. Servers with system load, comprising of cryptographic operations, see great performance improvement by offloading
crypto operations on to the Chelsio T7 adapters. With concurrent support for offloading multiple protocols and crypto operations, Chelsio has taken the Unified Wire solution to the next level. |
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Chelsio and StorageIO
presented a Birds of a Feather (BoF) Session exploring the challenges, issues, and benefits of addressing NVMe over TCP deployments without compromise.
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Chelsio published
the performance results of NVMe/TCP using Chelsio T6 Offload solution for
both Kernel and User modes. With more than 2.9 million IOPs at the 4K I/O
size, only an 8.69 μs delta latency between
remote and local storage access, up to 50% CPU savings, exceptional
jitter handling capabilities, the Chelsio solution proves to be the
best-in-class at providing the next generation, scalable storage network
over standard and cost-effective Ethernet infrastructure with an
efficient processing path. |
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Chelsio published
a paper on how the iWARP enabled T6 25G Unified Wire and Converged Network
Adapters (CNAs) enable a low-cost, plug-and-play, high-performance Storage
Spaces Direct (S2D) solution using standard Ethernet infrastructure. |
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Demartek published
a benchmark of iSCSI offload vs. no offload for a class of real world
applications. The results clearly demonstrated the necessity of offload
for 100Gb iSCSI. |
Videos
Webinars
In the Wild
Chelsio T7 DPU Line Launched for 400G Generation
Chelsio Unveils T7 DPU Family to Accelerate Range of Storage, Networking and Security Workloads
"No-compromise" NVMe/TCP Deployment using Server Storage I/O Offload - A Chelsio and StorageIO BoF session at SDC 2021
ToE NVMeoF TCP Performance Line Boost Performance Reduce Costs
Comparative Evaluation of Ethernet RDMA Fabrics for NVMe-oF
We put the iWARP in NVMe-oF - A Chelsio presentation at NVMe Developer Days Conference 2019.
SMB Direct in Linux - A Microsoft presentation providing an overview and benchmarks for SMB kernel client in Linux.
NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design
- TCP Offload (TOE) devices could reduce NVMe/TCP latency.
NVMe Over TCP Will Take Time to Eclipse RDMA
NetApp All-flash filers deliver record breaking performance - Using AFF A800 arrays and Chelsio 100GbE iWARP RDMA adapters.
400 Gbps Disk-to-Disk WAN file transfer - NASA HECN team demonstrates using NVMe-oF and Chelsio iWARP RDMA.
NFS/RDMA over iWARP - A Chelsio Presentation at SDC.
NetApp A800 benchmark - Benchmark results using NetApp A800 all-flash storage systems having T6 adapters.
NetApp long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA.
Long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA on Windows.
Comparing the RDMA technologies - An SNIA webcast comparing iWARP and RoCE.
Case Studies
Regional Library System Simplifies Their Data Center with a Windows Server 2016 Solution
- S2D deployment using Chelsio iWARP RDMA.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Improves Health IT ROI - Providing full support for
hyper-converged S2D deployments without requiring Top-of-Rack switches to support DCB capabilities.
Chelsio
Storage over IP Enable Data Infrastructures - Addressing the various application and workload demands by enabling more robust, productive, effective and efficient data infrastructures.
Learn More
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See a complete list of recent Chelsio newsletters
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See a complete list of recent Chelsio white papers
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See a complete list of Chelsio performance reports
here. |
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See a complete list of Competitive Analysis reports
here. |
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See a complete list of Case Studies here. |
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See a complete list of Videos here. |
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See a complete list of Webinars here. |
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See a complete list of Blogs here. |
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Q4 Specials
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Having trouble getting adapters? Chelsio's T5 and T6 adapters are now available with a 10-week lead time guarantee.
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Unified Wire v3.17.0.1 for Linux, OpenPOWER and ARM |
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